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Job title: director of advisory delivery
Division: kantar retail sales and shopper
Location: can be based anywhere in north america, east coast preferred
Kantar, the world’s leading data, insights, and consulting company is seeking an experienced retail leader to serve as a senior retail industry expert on our retailer insights teamAt kantar’s retail sales and shopper division, we help our clients transform insights into growth strategies, across leading retailers, brand manufacturers, financial services, consultancies, and agenciesUsing a unique blend of research, data, and knowledge we offer industry-leading insights through our kantar retail, shopper and category insights platforms, host must-attend events deep diving into the channels, retailers, and topics that matter most, and help solve our clients most pressing business challenges with our custom advisory services.
This individual leader will help to shape our kantar’s retail advisory agenda, building and managing the capabilities required to effectively execute advisory engagements, with a commercial mindset towards offer innovationTogether with the advisory consultants, this leader will often serve as the ambassador of kantar’s retail advisory voice, interfacing with clients, kantar leadership, employees, and a wide range of external and internal stakeholders.
Key responsibilities
Serve as kantar’s advisory delivery leader, commanding the personnel and resources available for deployment on the retail practice’s consulting engagements and driving client success
Directly delivering client work on strategic projects: serving as the role model for consulting excellence on the delivery team through an ability to analyze data deeply and effectively, to develop strong client-facing material, and to guide multi-stakeholder discussions into actionable outcomes
Mentoring and guiding a team of 10+ junior-to-mid level analysts, with the aim to elevate overall team capabilities, design career paths, and create a culture of continuous development
Enable sales and commercial expansion – while this leader will not have a selling target, the person will have deep fluency in kantar’s client base, and will work with client leaders to design the right solutions that leverage kantar’s unique offerings
Manage the needs of clients, practice area resources, and organizational priorities in order to drive sustained and effective growth
Own “the now and the future” of the retail advisory offer innovation: this person will be willing to roll up sleeves and help deliver work and allocate team resources, but will also lead offer evolution for the future.
Collaborate across kantar’s network of practice areas, capabilities and geographies, to bring the best of kantar to clients
Qualifications
8+ years of work experience focused on advisory and / or retail & consumer goods
3+ years’ experience in consulting or strategic client service roles
3+ years’ experience in team leadership or personnel management; with project management skills, and advanced coaching and career development skills
2+ years’ experience in business development, or supporting business development efforts through rfp’s, project scoping, etc.
3+ years of experience directly working in either data analytics, consumer / shopper research or similar quantitatively-focused roles
Deep familiarity with at least 3 of the following areas:
Category management / leadership
Retail b2b go-to-market strategy
Ecommerce marketing and merchandising
Retail trends and future of commerce recommendations
Supply chain/last mile logistics
Shopper marketing
Price/promotion/pack architecture & optimization
Digital strategy
Consumer journey research
Exceptional problem solving abilities, with an ability create structure for external and internal stakeholders
Exceptional ability to synthesize information into high-impact recommendations and solutions
Intellectually curious with a growth mindset
Strong presentation and storytelling skills and client gravitas, including with remote presentations
Collaborative – has an ability to connect with different kantar divisions in crafting holistic solutions that focus on addressing client needs.
Ability and interest in developing a network of clients and cross-industry contacts.
Bachelor’s degree required; relevant graduate degree (mba, master’s in analytics or research) strongly preferred
Join us:
At kantar we have an integrated way of rewarding our people based around a simple, clear and consistent set of principlesOur approach helps to ensure we are market competitive and to support a pay for performance culture, where your reward and career progression opportunities are linked to what you deliverWe go beyond the obvious, using intelligence, passion and creativity to inspire new thinking and shape the world we live inApply for a career that’s out of the ordinary and join usWe want to create an equality of opportunity in a fair and supportive working environment where people feel included, accepted and are allowed to flourish in a space where their mental health and wellbeing is taken into considerationWe want to create a more diverse community to expand our talent pool, be locally representative, drive diversity of thinking and better commercial outcomes.
At kantar, the diversity of our employees provides a richer environment for our employees and broader depth and breadth of thinking for our clientsKantar is committed to inclusion and diversity; therefore, we welcome applications from all sections of society and do not discriminate on the basis of age, race, religion, gender, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, marital status or any other legally protected characteristics.
Privacy and legal statement
Privacy disclosure: please note that by applying to this opportunity you consent to the personal data you provide to us to be processed and retained by the kantar group limited (“kantar”)Your details will be kept on our internal ats (applicant tracking system) for as long as is necessary for the purposes of recruitment, which may include your details being shared with the hiring manager.
Location
New york, world trade centerunited states of america
Kantar rewards statement
At kantar we have an integrated way of rewarding our people based around a simple, clear and consistent set of principlesOur approach helps to ensure we are market competitive and also to support a pay for performance culture, where your reward and career progression opportunities are linked to what you deliver.
We go beyond the obvious, using intelligence, passion and creativity to inspire new thinking and shape the world we live inApply for a career that’s out of the ordinary and join us.
We want to create an equality of opportunity in a fair and supportive working environment where people feel included, accepted and are allowed to flourish in a space where their mental health and well being is taken into consideration.
We want to create a more diverse community to expand our talent pool, be locally representative, drive diversity of thinking and better commercial outcomes.
Kantar is the world’s leading data, insights and consulting companyWe understand more about how people think, feel, shop, share, vote and view than anyone elseCombining our expertise in human understanding with advanced technologies, kantar’s 30,000 people help the world’s leading organisations succeed and grow.
